bubble tip anenome ?

[one24fan]

do you need a well established system before you buy a bubble tip?
I was wondering because i have a maroon clown and wanted to get one. Thanks
Daniel

 

[Rock Anemone]

It's best to have a tank which has been running for several months. You also need to make sure your water is stable, your tank is healthy, and you have the proper lighting to keep one.

Rock Anemone

 

[bertoni]

There's a host anemone sticky note at the top of this forum that provides a lot of information. I would wait a while to get an anemone, if the tank is new, at least six months. Actually, I waited a few years. They seem to be rather touchy.

 

[mystikdragon7]

A lot of people say wait a long time to get an anemone in your tank. Maybe I'm just lucky, but the first thing I ever put into my tank was a RBTA. It took three weeks for my 60gal tank to cycle and the first thing I put in my tank was a frag of xenia and a RBTA. The xenia has passed on a long time ago but I still have the RBTA today. It has gotten huge and has split once and been in my tank for over two years. I dosed my tank with phyto and fed the RBTA every other day or so with krill, maybe that was the trick to keeping the anemone alive. It is also under MH lights. Just my $.02

 

[bertoni]

The more common stories about anemones here are how one is dying in some tank or the other. It's always possible to get lucky, though.

 

[kingtoad]

Best to wait three months to get one.

 

[PatMayo]

I would venture to say that there are more "dead anemones" in a tank within a year than are alive.

You can have a very beautiful tank without them. They are very difficult to care for. They can be kept succesfully but most are in tank that are very sophisticated and have many thousands of dollars invested in automated and expensive equipment.

That has been my experience ove the past 15 years.

Regards,

Pat